'Guide' one best not followed

When I picked up Plebes: The Cartoon Guide for College Guides I had some hope for the book. I am a devoted reader of the Onion, a satire newspaper, and the cover boasts that the author, L.T. Horton, is a contributor. Alas, my hopes were in vain.\nI like cartoons just as much as the next girl, but these comics were nothing short of offensive. The third page in described campus Christians as people who are vapid, brainless, and repressed; I sincerely doubt that all the members of Campus Crusade do behind closed doors is masturbate furiously. I also doubt that IU cheerleaders fall into a deep depression every time the football team loses. With the way our team plays, we'd be lucky to ever see a cheerleader in class. \nDissapointingly, the subjects covered in the Guide did not improve. While the cover boasts that it mocks the behavior of the college male, it does nothing but continue the drunken fratboy stereotype. I don't know where Horton went to school, but I don't think bringing beer for your entire class would be a winning strategy for a good grade, even at the number one party school in the country. It's mindsets like this, thinking all college is is beer and babes, that prevent college students from being taken seriously.\nEven if you find the content humorous, there is no excuse for the quality of drawing in the Guide. The comics are drawn with a very rough hand, making them difficult to concentrate on for any given amount of time. I set the book down after every other page to prevent a splitting headache. Too bad I couldn't figure out whether my headache came from the content of the book or the scribbled mess that sat in front of me.\nMaybe I missed the point of the Guide, but I don't think so. What I found instead of a humorous look at college life, was a crass, stereotypical image of college men and women that doesn't even hold true today.